The City Council wants to offer free subway and bus fares to over one million New Yorkers living at or below 150% of the federal poverty level, a change that would mark a significant expansion of the city’s Fair Fares program, amNewYork has learned. www.amny.com/nyc-transit/...

New York Transit Museum workers voted unanimously to unionize last week, seeking higher wages and better job security from management. www.amny.com/nyc-transit/...

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING 🚨🚨🚨 The esteemed @davecolon.bsky.social — the transit scribe famously labeled “Dave Cologne of Street Blogs with the Knicks Situation” — wants you to know he is *not* “America’s Reporter.” Seems Mr. Cologne prefers “America’s Sweetheart.”

MTA giving an update on its new modern fare gate pilot at its full board meeting today. Officials say 31% of riders have used the new gates 12 million times.

New York City Transit President Demetrius Crichlow yesterday slammed the Transport Workers Union (TWU) for its renewed push for legislation that would require the MTA to maintain two-person crews on all subway trains that currently have them. www.amny.com/news/nyc-tra...

An MTA committee proceeded on Monday with recommending approval of the agency’s next contract to extend the Second Avenue Subway into East Harlem. www.amny.com/news/mta-com...

Want to know more about birding in the city, and get to try it out? Come join me to discuss @ryangoldberg.bsky.social's great new book Bird City on March 21 in Washington Heights!

MTA Chair Janno Lieber in the agency’s sunset park testing facility this AM announcing an RFP for its largest order of new subway cars ever. The 2,300 new cars will replace most of the A Division trains — the numbered lines.

The first year of congestion pricing in New York saw straphangers take more than 90 million additional subway rides than in the previous year, a new report from the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA (PCAC) found. www.amny.com/nyc-transit/...

First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s top cabinet member, said on Thursday that expanding metered parking is among possible revenue raisers the administration is considering to help close a sizable budget gap and fund its priorities. www.amny.com/news/mamdani...

Nearly 29,000 bicycle trips, on average, were made across the four major New York City bridges that span the East River last year, making 2025 the fifth straight year to hit an all-time high for cycling journeys over the waterway’s crossings, amNewYork first reported. www.amny.com/news/bicycli...

Transit advocates called out Mayor Zohran Mamdani for declining to increase funding for the city’s discounted fare program in the preliminary budget proposal he released on Tuesday. www.amny.com/news/transit...

Mayor Mamdani signaled today that his administration is taking a serious look at advocates’ renewed push to extend G train service to Forest Hills on weekends for the first time in 15 years — even though the MTA has the final call on whether that will happen. www.amny.com/news/mamdani...

After 15 years running on a shortened weekend route, the G train should once again extend to Forest Hills on Saturdays and Sundays, a group of advocates and the New York Mets told the MTA and elected officials this week. www.amny.com/news/g-train...

GDC sent a corrected release saying work will stop if the funds aren't resotred by 5pm. Likely they are awaiting the outcome of an emergency hearing that a Manhattan federal judge scheduled for the NY/NJ AGs' lawsuit today at 1pm.

As expected the Gateway Development Commission announces that work has stopped on the Hudson Tunnel Project since the Trump admin is still refusing to release federal funds it froze for the project in October.

Uber and Lyft drivers are set to receive “just cause” protections from “unfair deactivations,” after the City Council voted yesterday to override ex-Mayor Eric Adams’ 11th-hour veto of legislation to establish those safeguards. www.amny.com/nyc-transit/...

Andy Byford, once NYC Transit’s “train daddy” and now the Amtrak official charged with overseeing the Penn Station redesign, said today that he needs to “fully come up to speed” on dire warnings about the Gateway Tunnel project's impending pause. www.amny.com/news/penn-st...

A federal judge today sharply questioned Trump admin lawyers on their case for killing congestion pricing — specifically the idea that the president, via his transpo sec, has the power to void a contract approved by the previous admin. W/ @ninapullano.bsky.social www.amny.com/law/congesti...

Sen. Schumer at a meeting of the Gateway Development Corporation, the entity overseeing the construction of the Gateway Tunnel project, testifies that the poject is "on the precipice of being derailed and maybe even killed" after President Trump froze funding for it in Oct.

As new City Council Speaker Julie Menin names her leadership team and committee chair assignments on Thursday, two sources confirmed to amNewYork that she is set to appoint Council Member Shaun Abreu as the legislature’s new chair of the Committee on Transportatio. www.amny.com/news/speaker...

Monday marks one year since the congestion pricing cameras turned on and began charging drivers a $9 base toll to enter Manhattan below 60th Street during peak hours. www.amny.com/news/congest...

Congestion pricing is working. The cameras are staying on.

If you are a huge nerd like me, you may be wondering, "what about No. 6 trains that use the old City Hall Station to turn around at the end of their runs? What will they do during the Mamdani swearing-in?" Fear not.

The MetroCard, an iconic piece of plastic utilized by countless New Yorkers to access the city’s mass transit system for just over three decades, meets its demise on Dec. 31 at the age of 32. www.amny.com/news/remembe...

"ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to veto a controversial bill that would have required two operators aboard every subway train with more than two cars, sources told Streetsblog." W/Streetsblog's Man in Albany, Austin Jefferson -- nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/12/19/h...

MTA Chair Janno Lieber says the agency is still examining whether its new “European style” of fare enforcement on buses would require the buses to stop (as currently happens) or they will be able to do it while the bus is moving.

Outgoing City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams will not bring a measure to implement universal “daylighting,” which would eliminate parking near intersections to make them safer, to a vote before the end of the body’s current session. www.amny.com/news/speaker...

Safe streets advocates renewed their call on Monday for installing a two-way protected bike lane along Brooklyn’s Lafayette Avenue following an early morning crash that, police say, left an e-bike rider in critical condition. www.amny.com/news/advocat...

Queens F and M train riders gave mixed reactions to the two lines swapping their paths between the World’s Borough and Manhattan on Monday, the first day of the service change. www.amny.com/news/subway-...

CM Shekar Krishnan said yesterday he expects his long-stalled bill, aimed at strengthening protections for Uber/Lyft drivers from being kicked off the platforms through “unfair deactivations,” to receive a vote before the current City Council’s session ends in 2 weeks. www.amny.com/news/job-sec...

Personal news: I’m taking on a new beat as amNY”s transit reporter. Will be covering all things MTA and DOT. Hit me up with your tips/ideas on the subways, buses, street scape, ferries and all other modes of getting around!

Democratic mayoral nominee and frontrunner @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social addressed a crowd of 3,000 supporters at a campaign rally in Washington Heights on Monday night, encouraging New Yorkers to leave the status quo behind. www.amny.com/news/mamdani...

A group of some of New York’s most influential female elected officials joined Democratic mayoral nominee and frontrunner Zohran Mamdani on Friday to slam President Trump’s Justice Department for indicting state Attorney General Letitia James. www.amny.com/news/ag-jame...

Curtis Sliwa says he won’t abandon mayoral run amid mounting pressure, experts told amNY that’s probably true www.amny.com/news/sliwa-n...

BREAKING: Mayor Eric Adams quits re-election campaign after sagging in polls www.amny.com/news/eric-ad...

Updated the story to reflect the announcement that ABC reinstated Kimmel and he will return on Tuesday night. Waiting to hear from @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's campaign on this.

EXCLU: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social will announce today he is cancelling a televised town hall with WABC News planned for Sept. 25 in the wake of the network suspending comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show last week. www.amny.com/news/mamdani...

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, one of the three key Albany leaders, said he is “wholy supportive” of Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani’s affordability agenda today, adding he’s “not concerned” that moderate Gov. Kathy Hochul will prevent it from being passed. www.amny.com/news/speaker...

Mayor Eric Adams‘ campaign continued to insist today that Hizzoner would stay in the mayoral general election, even while saying that it would conduct its own “independent poll” to make a decision on whether or not he will drop out. www.amny.com/news/adams-c...

Why is Eric Adams staying in the mayor’s race despite low polls? Experts offer a few possible reasons www.amny.com/news/eric-ad...

During a @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social public safety forum @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social repeats an attack on rival Andrew Cuomo from the Dem primary, that the former gov's cutting of the state Advantage housing voucher program in 2011 "led to a skyrocketing of homelessness here in New York City."

After days of denial, Mayor Eric Adams seemed to admit Friday that he is entertaining offers for other job opportunities, though he maintained that he continues to campaign robustly for re-election. www.amny.com/news/eric-ad...

As questions swirl around whether Mayor Adams will stay in the mayors race, amid reports he was offered a Trump admin job, Muslim leaders are endorsing his reelection bid at city hall.

Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday falsely labeled socialist Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani “a communist,” echoing one of Republican President Donald Trump’s frequent lines of attack against the City Hall frontrunner. www.amny.com/news/eric-ad...

Mayor Adams says Dem nominee @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is "not a Democrat, he's a communist," when asked why Dem House Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Rep. Yvette Clarke have not endorsed. "It would be challenging to endorse his policies that are really anti-what working-class people want," he says.

Mayor Eric Adams today declined to say whether his ex-chief adviser, Ingrid Lewis-Martin, is still volunteering on his long-shot reelection campaign just days after she was indicted on a slew of fresh bribery and conspiracy charges. www.amny.com/news/ex-adam...

On the heels of the latest corruption allegations against his former top aides, Mayor Eric Adams today said “hell no” to the notion of him “stepping down,” while declining to explicitly condemn their actions. www.amny.com/news/mayor-a...

Mayor Adams says “hell no” to the idea that he would step down as mayor now. “I’m never going to quit on the city of NY, we’ve worked too hard to get here,” he says.

Mayor Adams’ general election rivals pounced on the latest corruption charges against his former top adviser, Ingrid Lewis-Martin, yesterday, as well as a report that another ex-top aide, Winnie Greco, handed a reporter a cash-stuffed potato chip bag the day before. www.amny.com/news/adams-r...